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Jobs least likely to be outsourced

« H E Yakov Fain :: email
posted Wednesday, 1 February 2006

Information Week published a pretty boring list of jobs that are least likely to be offshored.  Here's my list.

Top 10 professions that will not be outsourced any time soon:

  1. A plumber
    When you can’t flush the toilet, someone has to come in and  roll-up the sleeves
  1. Motor-vehicle drivers
     This includes truck/bus/cab drivers,  plane  pilots and train machinists
  2. Dentists
     Dental technicians are excluded. I know a lab in New York that sends  teeth molds to and gets back  the crowns in a week.
  3. Prostitutes
        Phone sex does not count
  4. Restaurant waiters
     Until some serious breakthrough when NASA will mass produce food in tubes and pills, someone has to put a plate on your table.
  5. The President of the USA
    Actually, this job is safe only until India did not include it in their laundry list
  6. Babysitters
  7. Construction workers
  8. Police Officers
  9. Computer programmers who know what recursion and bubble sort are. Bangalore vocational schools do not cover these topics. They just do not have the time

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comments (3)


1. Uma left...
Thursday, 2 February 2006 10:14 am

Yakov

I disagree with you on #10. With a wide demand-supply gap, it's true that there are a lot of programmers in India without a formal education in computer science. However, they are all graduates in an engineering discipline and most of them do know what a bubble sort is or how recursion works because these are fundamental principles of programming, irrespective of the language you are learning.

Uma.


2. saravenabava left...
Friday, 17 February 2006 2:06 am

Yakov,

  • i agree with what Uma has to say abt programmers. The programmers from india not all from computer background(to note there are many computer skilled people too) but they are technical people which no country in the world can challenge on this issue. They are passionate about the programming and one important point to note here as am too an indian and a programmer . i didnt find people willing to learn and apply wat they learn as indian programmers are doing i mean the majority of the indian people are willing to explore and in other parts of the world only few people are in to this as they take watever profession they like and enjoy their leisure time more than an average indian does. i had to work almost for 18 hours a day and could one belive for a span of 1.5 years this happened and would many people in reszt of the world do this. am speaking about the majority of the people.


3. Yakov Fain left...
Friday, 17 February 2006 7:11 am

Saravenabava,

I know how hard people in India work to become programmers, and give them lots of credits for this. Most of the Indian programmers I work with I high professionals, but there is a large population of opportunistic people there that joined the IT just to make a quick buck. I've been blogging more on the subject over here: http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/russian_programmers.htm